>From what I've read Huffy moved production to Mexico and they are
currently blaming China for their problems. Btw, Strobe Talbott is a
Dayton boy.
Tom
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> >Free trade in its neo-liberal, liberal, or "marxist" variants,
> >is mostly another name for an unfettered market, or really
> >unfettered ownership of capital, since the market-like nature
> >of the result will be highly problematic. If regulating
> >trade is bad, so too should regulating domestic markets.
>
> Not at all. What I'm objecting to is the almost single-minded focus
> on trade and "globalization." The UAW finds it a lot easier to talk
> about Mexico than it does about nonunion parts plants in Ohio. All
> this focus on the MAI and WTO by NGOs is conducted in such analytical
> isolation from markets in general - so much so that you have Nader et
> al bellyaching about monopoly and insufficient competition.
>
> >Try listening to the workers on this one, why dontcha?
>
> An old Pew Center poll showed that rank & file union members were
> much less opposed to NAFTA than were their leaders. Unfortunately I
> can't find it now or I'd cite chapter & verse.
>
> As for the workers, the U.S. working class is a very complicated
> formation; I think lots of people in these debates are still
> operating with an unstated assumption that "worker" = brawny white
> male autoworker. Also, Max, I think you underestimate the solidarity
> potential of the rank-and-file worker - first, out of self-interest
> (raising "their" wages means less competition for "us"), and second
> out of real sympathy. When Charlie Kernaghan took some young
> Guatemalan sweatshop workers on a tour of the U.S. heartland, they
> were very warmly received. Problem is there aren't many people like
> Charlie in organized labor.
>
> Doug